On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ an Astrologer Asks Artists Cosmic Questions
At ODC, 'w o w m o m' Is a Multimedia Dance Ode to the Planets
Why We've Turned to Nostradamus and Divination in the Age of Coronavirus
Perhaps Nostradamus Predicted Coronavirus After All...
An Astrological Guide to Relationships, Politics and Other Earthbound Problems
How Larry Arrington Integrated Astrology and Dance to Confront Cosmic Tumult
Sponsored
Player sponsored by
window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"arts_13981683": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "arts_13981683",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13981683",
"found": true
},
"title": "IsaVicMensaSmile",
"publishDate": 1758671328,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 13981680,
"modified": 1758673373,
"caption": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ host and astrologer Isa Nakazawa interviews artists like Vic Mensa, using their birth charts as a guide.",
"credit": "Courtesy of Isa Nakazawa",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/IsaVicMensaSmile-160x90.png",
"width": 160,
"height": 90,
"mimeType": "image/png"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/IsaVicMensaSmile-768x432.png",
"width": 768,
"height": 432,
"mimeType": "image/png"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/IsaVicMensaSmile-1536x864.png",
"width": 1536,
"height": 864,
"mimeType": "image/png"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/IsaVicMensaSmile-672x372.png",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/png"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/IsaVicMensaSmile-1038x576.png",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/png"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/IsaVicMensaSmile.png",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1125
}
},
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"arts_13912274": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "arts_13912274",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13912274",
"found": true
},
"parent": 13912270,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1-160x84.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 84
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1013
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1-1020x538.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 538
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1-1536x810.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 810
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1-800x422.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 422
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Alexa-Burrell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom1-768x405.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 405
}
},
"publishDate": 1650570543,
"modified": 1650570587,
"caption": "Alexa Burrell in a film still from 'w o w m o m.'",
"description": null,
"title": "Alexa Burrell. Film still from wow mom1",
"credit": "Courtesy of the artist",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "A woman with curly hair in a sparkly dress dances in blue light",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"arts_13891948": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "arts_13891948",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13891948",
"found": true
},
"parent": 13891898,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-scaled-e1611865103415.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1365
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
}
},
"publishDate": 1611865078,
"modified": 1611865128,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "jen-theodore-GK8FMN7xJXQ-unsplash",
"credit": "Jen Theodore/Unsplash",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": null,
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"arts_13878194": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "arts_13878194",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13878194",
"found": true
},
"parent": 13878154,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/nostradamus-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/nostradamus-160x94.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 94
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/nostradamus-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/nostradamus.jpg",
"width": 1800,
"height": 1057
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/nostradamus-1020x599.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 599
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/nostradamus-800x470.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/nostradamus-768x451.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 451
}
},
"publishDate": 1586211977,
"modified": 1586211977,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "nostradamus",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"arts_13873768": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "arts_13873768",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13873768",
"found": true
},
"parent": 13873759,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-1020x574.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 574
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-1200x675.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 675
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-1920x1080.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-Jessica-portrait-photo-by-Anna-Alexia-Basile-768x432.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 432
}
},
"publishDate": 1579817691,
"modified": 1579817815,
"caption": "Oakland astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo's new book looks at 'Real Relationships' through an inclusive and LGBTQ-friendly lens.",
"description": "Oakland astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo's new book looks at 'Real Relationships' through an inclusive and LGBTQ-friendly lens.",
"title": "Astrology - Jessica portrait - photo by Anna-Alexia Basile",
"credit": "Anna Alexia Basile",
"status": "inherit",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"arts_13872294": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "arts_13872294",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13872294",
"found": true
},
"parent": 13872290,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-1020x574.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 574
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-1200x675.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 675
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-1920x1080.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/chelsea-reichert-768x432.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 432
}
},
"publishDate": 1577836510,
"modified": 1577836616,
"caption": "Chelsea Reichert, seen here rehearsing at ODC Theater, is a performer in Larry Arrington's 'No Quarter.'",
"description": "Chelsea Reichert, seen here rehearsing at ODC Theater, is a performer in Larry Arrington's 'No Quarter.'",
"title": "Chelsea Reichert, seen here rehearsing at ODC Theater, is a performer in Larry Arrington's 'No Quarter.'",
"credit": "Sam Lefebvre/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false
},
"authorsReducer": {
"byline_arts_13873759": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_arts_13873759",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_arts_13873759",
"name": "Azucena Rasilla",
"isLoading": false
},
"slefebvre": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11091",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11091",
"found": true
},
"name": "Sam Lefebvre",
"firstName": "Sam",
"lastName": "Lefebvre",
"slug": "slefebvre",
"email": "sdlefebvre@gmail.com",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "Sam Lefebvre is an award-winning reporter at KQED Arts. He has worked as an editor and columnist at the \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em>, \u003cem>SF Weekly \u003c/em>and Impose Magazine, and his journalism and criticism has appeared in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>, the Guardian and Pitchfork.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/143b570c3dec13ae74c6aa2369b04fc8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "Lefebvre_Sam",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Sam Lefebvre | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/143b570c3dec13ae74c6aa2369b04fc8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/143b570c3dec13ae74c6aa2369b04fc8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/slefebvre"
},
"ralexandra": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11242",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11242",
"found": true
},
"name": "Rae Alexandra",
"firstName": "Rae",
"lastName": "Alexandra",
"slug": "ralexandra",
"email": "ralexandra@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"arts"
],
"title": "Reporter/Producer",
"bio": "Rae Alexandra is a Reporter/Producer for KQED Arts & Culture, and the creator/author of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history\">Rebel Girls From Bay Area History\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bizarrebayarea\">Bizarre Bay Area\u003c/a> series. Her debut book, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area\u003c/a> will be published by City Lights in Spring 2026. In 2023, Rae was awarded an SPJ Excellence in Journalism Award for Arts & Culture. Rae was born and raised in Wales and subsequently — even after two decades in Northern California — still uses phrases that regularly baffle her coworkers.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5ef3d663d9adae1345d06932a3951de?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "pop",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Rae Alexandra | KQED",
"description": "Reporter/Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5ef3d663d9adae1345d06932a3951de?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5ef3d663d9adae1345d06932a3951de?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/ralexandra"
},
"nvoynovskaya": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11387",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11387",
"found": true
},
"name": "Nastia Voynovskaya",
"firstName": "Nastia",
"lastName": "Voynovskaya",
"slug": "nvoynovskaya",
"email": "nvoynovskaya@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"arts"
],
"title": "Editor and reporter",
"bio": "Nastia Voynovskaya is a reporter and editor at KQED Arts & Culture. She's been covering the arts in the Bay Area for over a decade, with a focus on music, queer culture, labor issues and grassroots organizing. She has edited KQED story series such as Trans Bay: A History of San Francisco's Gender-Diverse Community, and co-created KQED's Bay Area hip-hop history project, That's My Word. Nastia's work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists and San Francisco Press Club. She holds a BA in comparative literature from UC Berkeley.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/nananastia/",
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "pop",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "podcasts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "hiphop",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Nastia Voynovskaya | KQED",
"description": "Editor and reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/nvoynovskaya"
},
"jebrahemi": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11771",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11771",
"found": true
},
"name": "Justin Ebrahemi",
"firstName": "Justin",
"lastName": "Ebrahemi",
"slug": "jebrahemi",
"email": "jebrahemi@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "Digital Engagement Manager",
"bio": "Justin Ebrahemi is a San Francisco-based writer and poet. As the Digital Engagement Manager he helps bring KQED Arts' work into local communities both in the Bay and nationally. Previously, Justin worked for the SF performing arts organization, CounterPulse, and his writing has been published in Dancers Group, SFMOMA's Open Space, and various arts zines. Catch Justin biking through the city or baking vegan treats on the weekend.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86cbbf64bf8c82d2a74d305c1760c365?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "JustinEbrahemi",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Justin Ebrahemi | KQED",
"description": "Digital Engagement Manager",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86cbbf64bf8c82d2a74d305c1760c365?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86cbbf64bf8c82d2a74d305c1760c365?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/jebrahemi"
}
},
"breakingNewsReducer": {},
"pagesReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"arts_13981680": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "arts_13981680",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13981680",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1758729608000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "stars-and-stars-with-isa-nakazawa-futuro-studios",
"title": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ an Astrologer Asks Artists Cosmic Questions",
"publishDate": 1758729608,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ an Astrologer Asks Artists Cosmic Questions | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "arts"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://isanaka.com/about\">Isa Nakazawa\u003c/a> has a gift for making guests feel seen when they sit down for an astrological reading on her podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://futurostudios.org/podcasts/stars-and-stars/\">\u003ci>Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. In a wide-ranging 2024 conversation that covered mutual aid, Desi futurism and channeling ancestors for guidance, R&B singer Raveena told Nakazawa, “You know what this show feels like? It feels like a spiritual \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@nardwuar\">Nardwuar\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Nardwuar, the music journalist known for shocking artists with his hyper-specific insights, Nakazawa carefully studies her guests’ birth charts and creative output to ask uncanny, poignant questions. Her vulnerable conversations zoom out from the interview subjects’ inner emotional landscape to their life’s purpose and contributions to broader culture and social movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/XGv5WZ_lcoA?si=7eKjuk1sDYTp2JOx\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ci>Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/i> is back for a second season on all podcast platforms and YouTube through Futuro Studios, the production company founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. The debut episode features author, trans activist and \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7216395/raquel-willis-gender-rights/\">\u003ci>TIME\u003c/i> woman of the year Raquel Willis\u003c/a>, and forthcoming guests include rapper and activist Vic Mensa and \u003ci>New York Times Magazine\u003c/i> journalist J Wortham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I intentionally book people who are both very vulnerable and are open and have been cracked open by these direct experiences, whether it’s falling in love, whether it’s loss — grief is a huge throughline in my show,” Nakazawa says. “But they’re also going to keep it real about the struggles that they’ve been through and how those experiences are racialized and classed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of an Uruguayan immigrant mother and Japanese American father, Nakazawa grew up in Boston and New York before relocating to the Bay Area almost two decades ago. She immersed herself in San Francisco and Oakland’s artist-activist scenes, first as a mentor at the youth development and poetry nonprofit Youth Speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13981685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13981685\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-2000x2667.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isa Nakazawa and W. Kamau Bell, who appeared as a guest on the first season of ‘Stars and Stars With Isa.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Isa Nakazawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early on, when she discovered the work of Afrofuturists like Sun Ra, and the writings of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, Nakazawa became inspired by Black American artists’ use of imagination to transcend the limitations society placed on them. She sees a similar power in astrology to help people see beyond their struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank goodness astrology is here to say, ‘No matter what you are, you in this state today are connected to the cosmos,’” she says. “And I hope that that would make someone say, ‘Wow, maybe I should consider that I’m inherently worthy and that I’m more than anyone could ever say.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13981684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13981684\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1055\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard-1536x810.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Stars and Stars With Isa’ billboard in New York’s Times Square in 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Isa Nakazawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nakazawa believes one’s astrological chart is a roadmap, not a destiny. Rather than fixating on planetary placements that might pose challenges to one’s love or professional life, she embraces them as sources of resilience and even humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really amazing to connect with people I admire and could easily project they have it easy,” she says of her guests. “And we end up going there and having a lot of conversations that are pretty real about our love lives not being linear, about the ways in which direct lived experience has made us uniquely positioned to talk about these things publicly.” [aside postid='arts_13981646']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a lens for understanding personal struggles, \u003ci>Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/i> makes a convincing case that astrology can also prompt us to grapple with global questions. In this age of rising authoritarianism and war, Nakazawa says that even though astrology isn’t frontline work, it can still play an important role in leading us towards a better world. Much like art, astrology can feed the soul of activism, injecting movements with hope and possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to create seductive, sustainable, compelling, adaptive, spacious social movements that are political and spiritual,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Astrology is the space of meaning making,” she adds. “And it’s also the space where we have to tap our imagination, which is very hard because our imaginations have been colonized. So that’s where you confront that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>New episodes of ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.futuromediagroup.org/stars-and-stars/.\">Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/a>’ come out every Tuesday. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Isa Nakazawa uses astrology to go deep with guests like Vic Mensa and Raquel Willis on her podcast.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1758673788,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 15,
"wordCount": 763
},
"headData": {
"title": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ Artists Grapple With Cosmic Questions | KQED",
"description": "Isa Nakazawa uses astrology to go deep with guests like Vic Mensa and Raquel Willis on her podcast.",
"ogTitle": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ an Astrologer Asks Artists Cosmic Questions",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ an Astrologer Asks Artists Cosmic Questions",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"socialTitle": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ Artists Grapple With Cosmic Questions %%page%% %%sep%% KQED",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "On ‘Stars and Stars With Isa,’ an Astrologer Asks Artists Cosmic Questions",
"datePublished": "2025-09-24T09:00:08-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-09-23T17:29:48-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 1,
"slug": "arts",
"name": "Arts"
},
"sticky": false,
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/arts/13981680/stars-and-stars-with-isa-nakazawa-futuro-studios",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://isanaka.com/about\">Isa Nakazawa\u003c/a> has a gift for making guests feel seen when they sit down for an astrological reading on her podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://futurostudios.org/podcasts/stars-and-stars/\">\u003ci>Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. In a wide-ranging 2024 conversation that covered mutual aid, Desi futurism and channeling ancestors for guidance, R&B singer Raveena told Nakazawa, “You know what this show feels like? It feels like a spiritual \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@nardwuar\">Nardwuar\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Nardwuar, the music journalist known for shocking artists with his hyper-specific insights, Nakazawa carefully studies her guests’ birth charts and creative output to ask uncanny, poignant questions. Her vulnerable conversations zoom out from the interview subjects’ inner emotional landscape to their life’s purpose and contributions to broader culture and social movements.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/XGv5WZ_lcoA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XGv5WZ_lcoA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This week, \u003ci>Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/i> is back for a second season on all podcast platforms and YouTube through Futuro Studios, the production company founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. The debut episode features author, trans activist and \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7216395/raquel-willis-gender-rights/\">\u003ci>TIME\u003c/i> woman of the year Raquel Willis\u003c/a>, and forthcoming guests include rapper and activist Vic Mensa and \u003ci>New York Times Magazine\u003c/i> journalist J Wortham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I intentionally book people who are both very vulnerable and are open and have been cracked open by these direct experiences, whether it’s falling in love, whether it’s loss — grief is a huge throughline in my show,” Nakazawa says. “But they’re also going to keep it real about the struggles that they’ve been through and how those experiences are racialized and classed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of an Uruguayan immigrant mother and Japanese American father, Nakazawa grew up in Boston and New York before relocating to the Bay Area almost two decades ago. She immersed herself in San Francisco and Oakland’s artist-activist scenes, first as a mentor at the youth development and poetry nonprofit Youth Speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13981685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13981685\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-2000x2667.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/WKamauBell-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isa Nakazawa and W. Kamau Bell, who appeared as a guest on the first season of ‘Stars and Stars With Isa.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Isa Nakazawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early on, when she discovered the work of Afrofuturists like Sun Ra, and the writings of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, Nakazawa became inspired by Black American artists’ use of imagination to transcend the limitations society placed on them. She sees a similar power in astrology to help people see beyond their struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank goodness astrology is here to say, ‘No matter what you are, you in this state today are connected to the cosmos,’” she says. “And I hope that that would make someone say, ‘Wow, maybe I should consider that I’m inherently worthy and that I’m more than anyone could ever say.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13981684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13981684\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1055\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/TimeSquareBillboard-1536x810.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Stars and Stars With Isa’ billboard in New York’s Times Square in 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Isa Nakazawa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nakazawa believes one’s astrological chart is a roadmap, not a destiny. Rather than fixating on planetary placements that might pose challenges to one’s love or professional life, she embraces them as sources of resilience and even humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really amazing to connect with people I admire and could easily project they have it easy,” she says of her guests. “And we end up going there and having a lot of conversations that are pretty real about our love lives not being linear, about the ways in which direct lived experience has made us uniquely positioned to talk about these things publicly.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "arts_13981646",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a lens for understanding personal struggles, \u003ci>Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/i> makes a convincing case that astrology can also prompt us to grapple with global questions. In this age of rising authoritarianism and war, Nakazawa says that even though astrology isn’t frontline work, it can still play an important role in leading us towards a better world. Much like art, astrology can feed the soul of activism, injecting movements with hope and possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to create seductive, sustainable, compelling, adaptive, spacious social movements that are political and spiritual,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Astrology is the space of meaning making,” she adds. “And it’s also the space where we have to tap our imagination, which is very hard because our imaginations have been colonized. So that’s where you confront that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>New episodes of ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.futuromediagroup.org/stars-and-stars/.\">Stars and Stars With Isa\u003c/a>’ come out every Tuesday. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/arts/13981680/stars-and-stars-with-isa-nakazawa-futuro-studios",
"authors": [
"11387"
],
"categories": [
"arts_1"
],
"tags": [
"arts_9548",
"arts_10278",
"arts_3837"
],
"featImg": "arts_13981683",
"label": "arts"
},
"arts_13912270": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "arts_13912270",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13912270",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1650589243000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "arts",
"term": 140
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1650589243,
"format": "standard",
"title": "At ODC, 'w o w m o m' Is a Multimedia Dance Ode to the Planets",
"headTitle": "At ODC, ‘w o w m o m’ Is a Multimedia Dance Ode to the Planets | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>For many, astrology is part jest and part moral compass. It’s how people either understand (or diagnose) themselves and their loved ones, but it’s also a belief framework for interpreting the past, present and an unknown future. And for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13872290/how-larry-arrington-integrated-astrology-and-dance-to-confront-cosmic-tumult\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area dancer Larry Arrington\u003c/a>, astrology carries a serious ethos of artistic practice and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans have practiced astrology for centuries (long before \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888641022/walter-mercado-remembered-with-mucho-mucho-amor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Mercado\u003c/a> was immortalized as a queer icon), though the practice seems to be reaching an apex of popularity in mainstream culture. Astrology memes have proliferated on Instagram, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/12/10/tarot-cards-pandemic-trend/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tarot card sales boomed in the pandemic\u003c/a>. In 2021, a special tarot deck was even released \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896413/a-new-tarot-deck-celebrates-bay-area-queer-burlesque-and-alt-culture\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to celebrate Bay Area queer and burlesque culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To everything there is a season,” says Arrington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003cem>w o w m o m\u003c/em>, Arrington’s latest work that continues her multidisciplinary exploration of astrological archetypes and planetary cycles. “Dance and performance—and now film—are the instruments I use to practice astrology.” In collaboration with mixed-media artist Alexa Burrell, the performance collages film with live dance, using Burrell’s sampling of sonic and video media. It premieres at ODC in San Francisco in two performances, on April 29 and 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of an African-American man's face in purple light.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brontez Purnell in a still from ‘w o w m o m.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Larry Arrington and Alexa Burrell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>w o w m o m\u003c/em>, a portmanteau of two palindromes that also appears the same upside down, centers the concept of motherhood and reflection. Venus was the mother of Cupid (Eros), and her iconography is often reflected in water. Here, water symbolizes the reflection of faith and love back to oneself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burrell’s mixed media accentuates Joel St. Julien’s film score and Clement Hill Goldberg’s stop-animation work for the centerpiece film. It’s all punctuated by live performances by Maurya Kerr, Brontez Purnell, Chelsea Reichert, Grisel Torres, Keith Hennessy, Gizeh Muniz-Vengel and Amy Wasielewski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13872290']Combining a variety of art forms is exactly the point, explains Arrington: “Collaboration and hybridity are important for the astrological configuration we’re dancing under.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the work’s development and its premiere also mirrors current astrological phenomena. Filming was done in the summer of 2021, so the artists could work with the first pass of Jupiter in Pisces, and the work will premiere next week when Venus is ruling the solar eclipse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wildly different configuration than the astrology we’ve been in for the last few years, that has amplified literal isolation and separation,” says Arrington. \u003cem>w o w m o m\u003c/em>’s staged premiere will soon align with a “wet mutable blend of astrology,” adds the artist, where isolation is ending and community is being called back together in a post-COVID world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if your knowledge of astrology is limited, don’t worry. Arrington asks audiences for an open mind following the planetary chaos provided by the past couple years: “Expectation is disappointment’s mother. Everyone is so exhausted. We’ve all been through so much. We’re trying to work with that in mind and in heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘w o w m o m’ premieres April 29 and 30 at ODC Theater in San Francisco at 7:30pm. \u003ca href=\"https://odc.dance/wowmom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 576,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 14
},
"modified": 1705006949,
"excerpt": "In the latest work from dancer Larry Arrington and artist Alexa Burrell, astrology helps guide us into a post-COVID universe.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "In the latest work from dancer Larry Arrington and artist Alexa Burrell, astrology helps guide us into a post-COVID universe.",
"title": "At ODC, 'w o w m o m' Is a Multimedia Dance Ode to the Planets | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "At ODC, 'w o w m o m' Is a Multimedia Dance Ode to the Planets",
"datePublished": "2022-04-21T18:00:43-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-11T13:02:29-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "odc-larry-arrington-alexa-burrell-wowmom-astrology-preview",
"status": "publish",
"templateType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"sticky": false,
"path": "/arts/13912270/odc-larry-arrington-alexa-burrell-wowmom-astrology-preview",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For many, astrology is part jest and part moral compass. It’s how people either understand (or diagnose) themselves and their loved ones, but it’s also a belief framework for interpreting the past, present and an unknown future. And for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13872290/how-larry-arrington-integrated-astrology-and-dance-to-confront-cosmic-tumult\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area dancer Larry Arrington\u003c/a>, astrology carries a serious ethos of artistic practice and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans have practiced astrology for centuries (long before \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888641022/walter-mercado-remembered-with-mucho-mucho-amor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Mercado\u003c/a> was immortalized as a queer icon), though the practice seems to be reaching an apex of popularity in mainstream culture. Astrology memes have proliferated on Instagram, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/12/10/tarot-cards-pandemic-trend/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tarot card sales boomed in the pandemic\u003c/a>. In 2021, a special tarot deck was even released \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896413/a-new-tarot-deck-celebrates-bay-area-queer-burlesque-and-alt-culture\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to celebrate Bay Area queer and burlesque culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To everything there is a season,” says Arrington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter \u003cem>w o w m o m\u003c/em>, Arrington’s latest work that continues her multidisciplinary exploration of astrological archetypes and planetary cycles. “Dance and performance—and now film—are the instruments I use to practice astrology.” In collaboration with mixed-media artist Alexa Burrell, the performance collages film with live dance, using Burrell’s sampling of sonic and video media. It premieres at ODC in San Francisco in two performances, on April 29 and 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A close up of an African-American man's face in purple light.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Brontez-Purnell.-Film-still-from-wow-mom.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brontez Purnell in a still from ‘w o w m o m.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Larry Arrington and Alexa Burrell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>w o w m o m\u003c/em>, a portmanteau of two palindromes that also appears the same upside down, centers the concept of motherhood and reflection. Venus was the mother of Cupid (Eros), and her iconography is often reflected in water. Here, water symbolizes the reflection of faith and love back to oneself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burrell’s mixed media accentuates Joel St. Julien’s film score and Clement Hill Goldberg’s stop-animation work for the centerpiece film. It’s all punctuated by live performances by Maurya Kerr, Brontez Purnell, Chelsea Reichert, Grisel Torres, Keith Hennessy, Gizeh Muniz-Vengel and Amy Wasielewski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "arts_13872290",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Combining a variety of art forms is exactly the point, explains Arrington: “Collaboration and hybridity are important for the astrological configuration we’re dancing under.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the work’s development and its premiere also mirrors current astrological phenomena. Filming was done in the summer of 2021, so the artists could work with the first pass of Jupiter in Pisces, and the work will premiere next week when Venus is ruling the solar eclipse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wildly different configuration than the astrology we’ve been in for the last few years, that has amplified literal isolation and separation,” says Arrington. \u003cem>w o w m o m\u003c/em>’s staged premiere will soon align with a “wet mutable blend of astrology,” adds the artist, where isolation is ending and community is being called back together in a post-COVID world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if your knowledge of astrology is limited, don’t worry. Arrington asks audiences for an open mind following the planetary chaos provided by the past couple years: “Expectation is disappointment’s mother. Everyone is so exhausted. We’ve all been through so much. We’re trying to work with that in mind and in heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘w o w m o m’ premieres April 29 and 30 at ODC Theater in San Francisco at 7:30pm. \u003ca href=\"https://odc.dance/wowmom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/arts/13912270/odc-larry-arrington-alexa-burrell-wowmom-astrology-preview",
"authors": [
"11771"
],
"programs": [
"arts_140"
],
"categories": [
"arts_1",
"arts_966"
],
"tags": [
"arts_9548",
"arts_1831",
"arts_879",
"arts_1406",
"arts_585"
],
"featImg": "arts_13912274",
"label": "arts_140"
},
"arts_13891898": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "arts_13891898",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13891898",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1612368040000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "arts"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1612368040,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Why We've Turned to Nostradamus and Divination in the Age of Coronavirus",
"headTitle": "Why We’ve Turned to Nostradamus and Divination in the Age of Coronavirus | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Last year, less than a month into shelter in place, I decided to read the prophecies of Nostradamus. Within hours, I had found a passage that looked an awful lot like a COVID-19 prediction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the feeble lists, great calamity through America and Lombardy. The fire in the ship, plague and captivity; Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn warning.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I thought a few other people might be interested to see it, so I wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13878154/perhaps-nostradamus-predicted-coronavirus-after-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quick story\u003c/a> about it for KQED Arts & Culture. [aside postid='arts_13878154']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months later, that quick story is now the most-read thing I’ve ever written in my entire life. As one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851592/most-read-your-top-stories-of-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most popular stories\u003c/a> across all of KQED last year, it’s rapidly approaching a million views. And as the story continues to be read by thousands of new readers week over week, it’s impossible not to wonder why so many people still care so much about cryptic verses written by a weird dude from the 16th Century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, it’s not just Nostradamus we’re obsessing over right now. Since COVID started, revisiting prophetic texts has become an increasingly common pastime. In India, people are re-reading the writings of\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potuluri_Veerabrahmam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Potuluri Veerabrahmam\u003c/a>, a Hindu saint and seer from the 17th century. Closer to home, Sylvia Browne’s 2008 book \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302984/end-of-days-by-sylvia-browne/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World\u003c/em>\u003c/a> saw a sudden boom in sales last year thanks to a coronavirus prediction within the text. (“In around 2020,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/1237924116486688768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Browne wrote\u003c/a>, “a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to spiritual matters, even before coronavirus, America was open-minded as hell. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/01/new-age-beliefs-common-among-both-religious-and-nonreligious-americans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 Pew Study\u003c/a> found that 98 million of us believe in astrology, and a whopping 134 million believe in psychics. In 2019, psychic services—everything from palm, aura and tarot reading, to numerology and animal psychics—was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-reports/psychic-services-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2 billion\u003c/a> industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was all pre-pandemic. And belief in spiritual matters tends to increase during times of crisis. It’s why agnostics pray their way through airplane turbulence, it’s why so many grieving people visit mediums, and it’s why those dealing with hardship are often the ones with the strongest faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History is awash with leaps of faith in the midst of dark times. In the 15th Century, because the military believed she was a messenger of God, a teenaged \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc#Military_campaigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joan of Arc\u003c/a> was permitted to lead the French army into battle after a series of crushing defeats. In the early 1900s, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grigori Rasputin\u003c/a> held notorious influence over the Russian royal family because the tsar and his wife believed he could heal their son of hemophilia. Even in the 1970s, salt-of-the-Earth detectives \u003ca href=\"https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/wife-of-former-dp-police-chief-finishes-gacy-book/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consulted with psychics\u003c/a> during their hunt for serial killers like John Wayne Gacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upheaval caused by COVID-19 has impacted every facet of American life. So it’s not surprising that, as we wrestle with the whys of it all, some of us are more inclined than usual to seek comfort, answers and a greater sense of preparedness from the realms of the spiritual and supernatural. After all, according to neuroscientists, “the human brain is built in such a way as to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190529-do-humans-have-a-religion-instinct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facilitate spiritual\u003c/a> kinds of experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tanyablessings.com/about-the-author/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanya Carroll Richardson\u003c/a>, an author and professional intuitive who offered readings over the phone even before the pandemic, says she was fully booked in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people come to me when they are struggling in some way,” Richardson says. “Seeing a challenge from a deeper, broader spiritual perspective doesn’t take the pain or frustration away, but it can add new meaning, comfort, and insight. It can help us pivot in positive ways. I did notice an increase in interest in spirituality in 2020, and it was nourishing and healing for me to help support people during a difficult year.” [aside postid='pop_103358']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson isn’t alone in finding her own comfort through her spiritual work with clients. In the midst of massive job losses and economic uncertainty, many who previously enjoyed tarot and astrology as a pastime have turned to either monetizing their skills for the first time, or transforming their part-time interest into a full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jasminewolfe.xyz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jasmine Wolfe\u003c/a> was already working part-time in numerology, astrology and tarot, but her job security came from a part-time position in childcare. In March 2020, when attendance suddenly dwindled, Wolfe decided to give up her day job. She says taking the plunge has paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have absolutely seen an increase in business since lockdown last year,” the Sacramento resident explains. “It’s not surprising that so many people are called to divinatory practices at this time when things are so uncertain. Wanting to know what the future holds is something that has preoccupied humans for millennia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to providing one-on-one readings, Wolfe now also offers courses, mentorships and coaching in numerology, astrology, tarot and witchcraft. “Tarot [provides] clarity and guidance,” she explains, “but I think astrology is the better tool for divination. It dates back to the oldest civilizations in Egypt, Babylonia, China. I think a lot of people have been drawn to following it this past year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During times of crisis, one of the most comforting things about prophecies and predictions is the sense they give us that nothing is accidental. That even the most traumatic, chaotic events are, in fact, all part of a larger plan. If some weird guy with a beard saw coronavirus coming 466 years ago, we tell ourselves, not only was it unavoidable, but it must be \u003cem>happening for a reason\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if that notion gets you through this tough period, then it’s a notion that’s cruel to argue with.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1013,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 19
},
"modified": 1705019547,
"excerpt": "Nostradamus might have predicted coronavirus—but why do we still care about such things?",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"socialTitle": "Nostradamus, Astrology and Why We've Turned to Divination in the Age of Coronavirus %%page%% %%sep%% KQED",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Nostradamus might have predicted coronavirus—but why do we still care about such things?",
"title": "Nostradamus, Astrology and Why We've Turned to Divination in the Age of Coronavirus | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Why We've Turned to Nostradamus and Divination in the Age of Coronavirus",
"datePublished": "2021-02-03T08:00:40-08:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-11T16:32:27-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "why-weve-turned-to-nostradamus-and-divination-in-the-age-of-coronavirus",
"status": "publish",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"sticky": false,
"path": "/arts/13891898/why-weve-turned-to-nostradamus-and-divination-in-the-age-of-coronavirus",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last year, less than a month into shelter in place, I decided to read the prophecies of Nostradamus. Within hours, I had found a passage that looked an awful lot like a COVID-19 prediction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the feeble lists, great calamity through America and Lombardy. The fire in the ship, plague and captivity; Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn warning.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I thought a few other people might be interested to see it, so I wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13878154/perhaps-nostradamus-predicted-coronavirus-after-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quick story\u003c/a> about it for KQED Arts & Culture. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "arts_13878154",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months later, that quick story is now the most-read thing I’ve ever written in my entire life. As one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851592/most-read-your-top-stories-of-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most popular stories\u003c/a> across all of KQED last year, it’s rapidly approaching a million views. And as the story continues to be read by thousands of new readers week over week, it’s impossible not to wonder why so many people still care so much about cryptic verses written by a weird dude from the 16th Century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, it’s not just Nostradamus we’re obsessing over right now. Since COVID started, revisiting prophetic texts has become an increasingly common pastime. In India, people are re-reading the writings of\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potuluri_Veerabrahmam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Potuluri Veerabrahmam\u003c/a>, a Hindu saint and seer from the 17th century. Closer to home, Sylvia Browne’s 2008 book \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302984/end-of-days-by-sylvia-browne/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World\u003c/em>\u003c/a> saw a sudden boom in sales last year thanks to a coronavirus prediction within the text. (“In around 2020,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/1237924116486688768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Browne wrote\u003c/a>, “a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to spiritual matters, even before coronavirus, America was open-minded as hell. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/01/new-age-beliefs-common-among-both-religious-and-nonreligious-americans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 Pew Study\u003c/a> found that 98 million of us believe in astrology, and a whopping 134 million believe in psychics. In 2019, psychic services—everything from palm, aura and tarot reading, to numerology and animal psychics—was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-reports/psychic-services-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2 billion\u003c/a> industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was all pre-pandemic. And belief in spiritual matters tends to increase during times of crisis. It’s why agnostics pray their way through airplane turbulence, it’s why so many grieving people visit mediums, and it’s why those dealing with hardship are often the ones with the strongest faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History is awash with leaps of faith in the midst of dark times. In the 15th Century, because the military believed she was a messenger of God, a teenaged \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc#Military_campaigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joan of Arc\u003c/a> was permitted to lead the French army into battle after a series of crushing defeats. In the early 1900s, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grigori Rasputin\u003c/a> held notorious influence over the Russian royal family because the tsar and his wife believed he could heal their son of hemophilia. Even in the 1970s, salt-of-the-Earth detectives \u003ca href=\"https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/wife-of-former-dp-police-chief-finishes-gacy-book/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consulted with psychics\u003c/a> during their hunt for serial killers like John Wayne Gacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upheaval caused by COVID-19 has impacted every facet of American life. So it’s not surprising that, as we wrestle with the whys of it all, some of us are more inclined than usual to seek comfort, answers and a greater sense of preparedness from the realms of the spiritual and supernatural. After all, according to neuroscientists, “the human brain is built in such a way as to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190529-do-humans-have-a-religion-instinct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facilitate spiritual\u003c/a> kinds of experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tanyablessings.com/about-the-author/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanya Carroll Richardson\u003c/a>, an author and professional intuitive who offered readings over the phone even before the pandemic, says she was fully booked in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people come to me when they are struggling in some way,” Richardson says. “Seeing a challenge from a deeper, broader spiritual perspective doesn’t take the pain or frustration away, but it can add new meaning, comfort, and insight. It can help us pivot in positive ways. I did notice an increase in interest in spirituality in 2020, and it was nourishing and healing for me to help support people during a difficult year.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "pop_103358",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson isn’t alone in finding her own comfort through her spiritual work with clients. In the midst of massive job losses and economic uncertainty, many who previously enjoyed tarot and astrology as a pastime have turned to either monetizing their skills for the first time, or transforming their part-time interest into a full-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jasminewolfe.xyz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jasmine Wolfe\u003c/a> was already working part-time in numerology, astrology and tarot, but her job security came from a part-time position in childcare. In March 2020, when attendance suddenly dwindled, Wolfe decided to give up her day job. She says taking the plunge has paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have absolutely seen an increase in business since lockdown last year,” the Sacramento resident explains. “It’s not surprising that so many people are called to divinatory practices at this time when things are so uncertain. Wanting to know what the future holds is something that has preoccupied humans for millennia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to providing one-on-one readings, Wolfe now also offers courses, mentorships and coaching in numerology, astrology, tarot and witchcraft. “Tarot [provides] clarity and guidance,” she explains, “but I think astrology is the better tool for divination. It dates back to the oldest civilizations in Egypt, Babylonia, China. I think a lot of people have been drawn to following it this past year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During times of crisis, one of the most comforting things about prophecies and predictions is the sense they give us that nothing is accidental. That even the most traumatic, chaotic events are, in fact, all part of a larger plan. If some weird guy with a beard saw coronavirus coming 466 years ago, we tell ourselves, not only was it unavoidable, but it must be \u003cem>happening for a reason\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if that notion gets you through this tough period, then it’s a notion that’s cruel to argue with.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/arts/13891898/why-weve-turned-to-nostradamus-and-divination-in-the-age-of-coronavirus",
"authors": [
"11242"
],
"categories": [
"arts_1",
"arts_75"
],
"tags": [
"arts_9548",
"arts_10127",
"arts_10342",
"arts_10416"
],
"featImg": "arts_13891948",
"label": "arts"
},
"arts_13878154": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "arts_13878154",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13878154",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1586214780000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "arts"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1586214780,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Perhaps Nostradamus Predicted Coronavirus After All...",
"headTitle": "Perhaps Nostradamus Predicted Coronavirus After All… | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>A couple weeks ago, a meme started doing the rounds on social media, claiming that Nostradamus had predicted the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM.png\" alt=\"Everything written here is entirely false.\" width=\"305\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM.png 305w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM-160x243.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything written here is entirely false.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nostradamus-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snopes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/06/facebook-posts/no-evidence-nostradamus-predicted-novel-coronaviru/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politifact\u003c/a> quickly stepped up to point out that the claims in the image are fabricated nonsense, and Facebook has since started flagging and obscuring the image with a “false information” tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nostradamus was notoriously vague in many of the predictions he made in his 1555 book, \u003cem>Les Prophéties. \u003c/em>But even after nearly five centuries, humans still find themselves turning to his writings in times of woe—probably because of what he \u003cem>did\u003c/em> get right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892672']Nostradamus victories include air travel (“People will travel safely through the sky”), the year of the great fire of London (“The blood of the just will be demanded of London burnt by fire in three times twenty plus six”) and the rise of Hitler (though Nostradamus referred to him as “Hister.”) It’s worth noting that the astrologer also wrote about something that bears a striking resemblance to 9/11. (“The sky will burn at forty-five degrees, fire approaches the great New City. Immediately a huge scattered flame leaps up.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, some Nostradamus fans, eager to find coronavirus content in \u003cem>Les Prophéties,\u003c/em> have pointed to passages that are aggravatingly non-specific. Like the one that references “\u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/did-nostradamus-predict-the-coronavirus/ar-BBZDRa6?li=AAaGkVj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The great plague of the maritime city\u003c/a>,” and the one that says “\u003ca href=\"https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1265043/Nostradamus-quatrains-prophecies-plague-coronavirus-prediction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">And diverse plagues will be upon mankind\u003c/a>.” But this morning I found one that appears to be a lot more specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Prophecies of Nostradamus\u003c/em> by Erika Cheetham is a complete translation of the original text, first published in 1973. Naturally, I just happen to have a copy lying around for lockdown and today I found both a reference to “plague, lightning and hail at the end of March,” and, more importantly, this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the feeble lists, great calamity through America and Lombardy. The fire in the ship, plague and captivity; Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn warning.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We can all understand the references to “plague and captivity” at this point, but everything else in this passage lines up too. Assuming “the feeble lists” refer to the sick and the dead, America and Italy (Lombardy is a region in the north of the country) are in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-cases-and-deaths-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top three\u003c/a> most infected countries so far, along with Spain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/8977939/mercury-in-sagittarius-december-2019-astrology-meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercury entered Sagittarius\u003c/a> in December 2019, which is when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0121-novel-coronavirus-travel-case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first cases of coronavirus\u003c/a> occurred, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/monthly-horoscope/2020/2/24/march-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saturn moved into Aquarius\u003c/a> on March 21, right as New York City was going into lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894837']As for the fire in the ship, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-ships-stranded-coronavirus-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple cruise liners\u003c/a> have become stranded at sea during this crisis due to coronavirus emergencies on board. This includes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/16/coronavirus-grand-princess-departs-oakland-lets-off-crew/5058788002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Princess\u003c/a>, which docked in Oakland on March 9 with 21 confirmed coronavirus cases on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which suggests that Nostradamus did see this coming after all. It wouldn’t be the first time. The following passage is often interpreted as predicting World War I and the flu epidemic that killed over 50 million people directly afterwards:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The dreadful war which prepared in the West, the following year the pestilence will come, so very horrible that young, nor old, nor animal (will survive).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Try not to feel too frustrated about our current predicament though. Things could always be worse. After all, Nostradamus has also predicted an imminent zombie apocalypse:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The year of the great seventh number accomplished, it will appear at the time of the games of slaughter, not far from the age of the great millennium, when the dead will come out of their graves.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Something for us to look forward to in 2027?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The text of this story was updated after several readers contacted KQED to confirm that Mercury entered Sagittarius in December.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 658,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 18
},
"modified": 1705020944,
"excerpt": "Social media is full of fake Nostradamus coronavirus predictions—but maybe we found a real one.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Social media is full of fake Nostradamus coronavirus predictions—but maybe we found a real one.",
"title": "Perhaps Nostradamus Predicted Coronavirus After All... | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Perhaps Nostradamus Predicted Coronavirus After All...",
"datePublished": "2020-04-06T16:13:00-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-11T16:55:44-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "perhaps-nostradamus-predicted-coronavirus-after-all",
"status": "publish",
"templateType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"sticky": false,
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/arts/13878154/perhaps-nostradamus-predicted-coronavirus-after-all",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A couple weeks ago, a meme started doing the rounds on social media, claiming that Nostradamus had predicted the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM.png\" alt=\"Everything written here is entirely false.\" width=\"305\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM.png 305w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-1.44.25-PM-160x243.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything written here is entirely false.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nostradamus-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snopes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/06/facebook-posts/no-evidence-nostradamus-predicted-novel-coronaviru/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politifact\u003c/a> quickly stepped up to point out that the claims in the image are fabricated nonsense, and Facebook has since started flagging and obscuring the image with a “false information” tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nostradamus was notoriously vague in many of the predictions he made in his 1555 book, \u003cem>Les Prophéties. \u003c/em>But even after nearly five centuries, humans still find themselves turning to his writings in times of woe—probably because of what he \u003cem>did\u003c/em> get right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "arts_13892672",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nostradamus victories include air travel (“People will travel safely through the sky”), the year of the great fire of London (“The blood of the just will be demanded of London burnt by fire in three times twenty plus six”) and the rise of Hitler (though Nostradamus referred to him as “Hister.”) It’s worth noting that the astrologer also wrote about something that bears a striking resemblance to 9/11. (“The sky will burn at forty-five degrees, fire approaches the great New City. Immediately a huge scattered flame leaps up.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, some Nostradamus fans, eager to find coronavirus content in \u003cem>Les Prophéties,\u003c/em> have pointed to passages that are aggravatingly non-specific. Like the one that references “\u003ca href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/did-nostradamus-predict-the-coronavirus/ar-BBZDRa6?li=AAaGkVj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The great plague of the maritime city\u003c/a>,” and the one that says “\u003ca href=\"https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1265043/Nostradamus-quatrains-prophecies-plague-coronavirus-prediction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">And diverse plagues will be upon mankind\u003c/a>.” But this morning I found one that appears to be a lot more specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Prophecies of Nostradamus\u003c/em> by Erika Cheetham is a complete translation of the original text, first published in 1973. Naturally, I just happen to have a copy lying around for lockdown and today I found both a reference to “plague, lightning and hail at the end of March,” and, more importantly, this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the feeble lists, great calamity through America and Lombardy. The fire in the ship, plague and captivity; Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn warning.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We can all understand the references to “plague and captivity” at this point, but everything else in this passage lines up too. Assuming “the feeble lists” refer to the sick and the dead, America and Italy (Lombardy is a region in the north of the country) are in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-cases-and-deaths-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top three\u003c/a> most infected countries so far, along with Spain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/8977939/mercury-in-sagittarius-december-2019-astrology-meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercury entered Sagittarius\u003c/a> in December 2019, which is when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0121-novel-coronavirus-travel-case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first cases of coronavirus\u003c/a> occurred, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/monthly-horoscope/2020/2/24/march-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saturn moved into Aquarius\u003c/a> on March 21, right as New York City was going into lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "arts_13894837",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As for the fire in the ship, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-ships-stranded-coronavirus-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple cruise liners\u003c/a> have become stranded at sea during this crisis due to coronavirus emergencies on board. This includes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/16/coronavirus-grand-princess-departs-oakland-lets-off-crew/5058788002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Princess\u003c/a>, which docked in Oakland on March 9 with 21 confirmed coronavirus cases on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which suggests that Nostradamus did see this coming after all. It wouldn’t be the first time. The following passage is often interpreted as predicting World War I and the flu epidemic that killed over 50 million people directly afterwards:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The dreadful war which prepared in the West, the following year the pestilence will come, so very horrible that young, nor old, nor animal (will survive).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Try not to feel too frustrated about our current predicament though. Things could always be worse. After all, Nostradamus has also predicted an imminent zombie apocalypse:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The year of the great seventh number accomplished, it will appear at the time of the games of slaughter, not far from the age of the great millennium, when the dead will come out of their graves.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Something for us to look forward to in 2027?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The text of this story was updated after several readers contacted KQED to confirm that Mercury entered Sagittarius in December.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/arts/13878154/perhaps-nostradamus-predicted-coronavirus-after-all",
"authors": [
"11242"
],
"categories": [
"arts_2303",
"arts_7862"
],
"tags": [
"arts_9548",
"arts_2767",
"arts_10126",
"arts_10585",
"arts_10416"
],
"featImg": "arts_13878194",
"label": "arts"
},
"arts_13873759": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "arts_13873759",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13873759",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1579820198000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "jessica-lanyadoo-astrology-real-relationships",
"title": "An Astrological Guide to Relationships, Politics and Other Earthbound Problems",
"publishDate": 1579820198,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "An Astrological Guide to Relationships, Politics and Other Earthbound Problems | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "arts"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My introduction to the zodiac came from beloved Puerto Rican astrologer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/03/775886911/puerto-rican-astrologer-walter-mercado-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walter Mercado\u003c/a>. With his enigmatic persona, colorful capes and extravagant jewelry that sparkled as he read the stars, Mercado hypnotized me from the TV screen as a young girl. At the time, all I knew about my birth chart was that my sun was in Gemini, and that many saw my sign as volatile, flip-flopping and two-faced. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet that stereotype never derailed me from faithfully watching Mercado on Spanish TV to find out what the stars had in store for Geminis like myself. It wasn’t until years later, when I started reading horoscopes in newspapers, magazines and online, that I began to understand that our sun sign is only a fraction of the astrological clues that can help us navigate who we are and how we relate to our friends, family and love interests.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873769\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover-800x956.jpg\" alt=\"'Astrology for Real Relationships' by Jessica Lanyadoo and T. Greenaway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover-160x191.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover-768x918.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Astrology for Real Relationships’ by Jessica Lanyadoo and T. Greenaway.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her new book, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603459/astrology-for-real-relationships-by-jessica-lanyadoo-with-t-greenaway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Understanding You, Me, and How We All Get Along\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Oakland astrologer and psychic medium \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelanyadoo.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessica Lanyadoo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gives readers an easy-to-read breakdown in three key sections: friends and chosen family, hanging out and dating, and long-term relationships. For Lanyadoo, it was important to make the book inclusive to all, including those who live outside of the gender binary, and to forego the idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. \u003cem>Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/em>, written in collaboration with journalist and editor T. Greenaway, takes an LGBTQ-friendly approach, and analyzes the sometimes confusing aspects of birth charts—like how each of the 12 houses affect our approaches to money, intimacy, self-care and more—in a straightforward way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I wanted to create an astrological and very cute textbook that would hold space for the complexity of our own nature, and also the complexity of how we relate to people we choose to relate to,” Lanyadoo tells me in a recent interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lanyadoo is well known in the Bay Area: she was the resident astrologer at the \u003c/span>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://sfbgarchive.48hills.org/writer/jessica-lanyadoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco Bay Guardian \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>from 2003 \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">until the weekly paper folded in 2014. Since, Lanyadoo has grown an international audience. She’s the host of the advice show \u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ghost-of-a-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghost of a Podcast\u003c/a>, and writes horoscopes for the women’s lifestyle websites \u003ca href=\"https://www.girlboss.com/contributors/jessicalanyadoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girlboss\u003c/a> here in the United States and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chatelaine.com/author/jessica-lanyadoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chatelaine\u003c/a> in Canada. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before immersing myself in Lanyadoo’s book, I pulled up my birth chart on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ghost-of-a-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free generator\u003c/a> on her website\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. After finding out that I’m a quadruple Gemini, and three-times Sagittarius, I had questions—and with Lanyadoo’s help, I got clear answers. “The placement of the moon tells you about your emotions, the placement of Neptune tells you about your ideals, and where Mercury falls on your chart offers insight about your mind and your thoughts,” a passage in the book reads. [aside postid='pop_107634']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lanyadoo believes that aside influencing our interactions with others, the planets also rule our surroundings and what goes on in the world. When it comes to Pluto, the book explains that it is the planet that “governs our fight-or-flight mechanisms, destruction and healing, compulsive feelings, manic impulses, and the actions that come from them.” Considering the current state of our political climate, it is impossible to read this section and not think of the current administration in the White House. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I asked Lanyadoo what’s going on with Pluto at the moment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“On the 12th of January we went though this massive and very important transit called Saturn in conjunction to Pluto,” Lanyadoo explains. “There will be a few other transits with Pluto happening in 2020. And, then, in 2021, we are going to the Pluto return to the United States of America. This is a massive transit, and yes, we are going through major Plutonian themes.” In other words, we as a society are going to be confronted with our wrongdoings and the work ahead to fix them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The stars can also help us understand history, Lanyadoo says, and how it relates to the present. “The last time that planet Uranus was transiting through the sign Taurus, which is happening right now, was when we had Hitler,” she says. “And again, we are seeing a rise in authoritarianism.” [aside postid='arts_13872290']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet \u003cem>Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/em> is not all darkness and destruction, and in light of Valentine’s Day coming up, I ask Lanyadoo about what the planets have in store for us single folks and hopeless romantics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m a big believer in following the flow of your life. If what you are trying to do is to fill a void, not a very successful motive,” she explains. “But if you are actually open to getting to know someone new, and willing to do the work and having healthy boundaries, then yes.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Astrology can help us figure things out, but Lanyadoo emphasizes the need to take care of our inner self first before anything else. She offers some guidance as to what is in store for 2020: “Venus is going retrograde from May 13 to June 25, not terribly long. But, we also have it happening from September through November 13 with Mars going retrograde.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two planets impact dating, she explains, because they affect the way we relate to others and the love we are choosing. “This [retrograde] can be a really powerful time for making the time to do an internal adjustment we need in order to get the external outcome we desire.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with the customizable approach in her book, Lanyadoo reminds us, “Astrology is a tool.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How we use it is up to us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Oakland astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo's new book offers practical and queer-friendly explainers of the zodiac. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1726764421,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 18,
"wordCount": 998
},
"headData": {
"title": "An Astrological Guide to Relationships, Politics and Other Earthbound Problems | KQED",
"description": "Oakland astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo's new book offers practical and queer-friendly explainers of the zodiac. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "An Astrological Guide to Relationships, Politics and Other Earthbound Problems",
"datePublished": "2020-01-23T14:56:38-08:00",
"dateModified": "2024-09-19T09:47:01-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "Azucena Rasilla",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"path": "/arts/13873759/jessica-lanyadoo-astrology-real-relationships",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My introduction to the zodiac came from beloved Puerto Rican astrologer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/03/775886911/puerto-rican-astrologer-walter-mercado-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walter Mercado\u003c/a>. With his enigmatic persona, colorful capes and extravagant jewelry that sparkled as he read the stars, Mercado hypnotized me from the TV screen as a young girl. At the time, all I knew about my birth chart was that my sun was in Gemini, and that many saw my sign as volatile, flip-flopping and two-faced. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet that stereotype never derailed me from faithfully watching Mercado on Spanish TV to find out what the stars had in store for Geminis like myself. It wasn’t until years later, when I started reading horoscopes in newspapers, magazines and online, that I began to understand that our sun sign is only a fraction of the astrological clues that can help us navigate who we are and how we relate to our friends, family and love interests.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13873769\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13873769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover-800x956.jpg\" alt=\"'Astrology for Real Relationships' by Jessica Lanyadoo and T. Greenaway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover-160x191.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Astrology-for-real-relationships-book-cover-768x918.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Astrology for Real Relationships’ by Jessica Lanyadoo and T. Greenaway.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her new book, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603459/astrology-for-real-relationships-by-jessica-lanyadoo-with-t-greenaway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Understanding You, Me, and How We All Get Along\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Oakland astrologer and psychic medium \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelanyadoo.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessica Lanyadoo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gives readers an easy-to-read breakdown in three key sections: friends and chosen family, hanging out and dating, and long-term relationships. For Lanyadoo, it was important to make the book inclusive to all, including those who live outside of the gender binary, and to forego the idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. \u003cem>Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/em>, written in collaboration with journalist and editor T. Greenaway, takes an LGBTQ-friendly approach, and analyzes the sometimes confusing aspects of birth charts—like how each of the 12 houses affect our approaches to money, intimacy, self-care and more—in a straightforward way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I wanted to create an astrological and very cute textbook that would hold space for the complexity of our own nature, and also the complexity of how we relate to people we choose to relate to,” Lanyadoo tells me in a recent interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lanyadoo is well known in the Bay Area: she was the resident astrologer at the \u003c/span>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://sfbgarchive.48hills.org/writer/jessica-lanyadoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco Bay Guardian \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>from 2003 \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">until the weekly paper folded in 2014. Since, Lanyadoo has grown an international audience. She’s the host of the advice show \u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ghost-of-a-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghost of a Podcast\u003c/a>, and writes horoscopes for the women’s lifestyle websites \u003ca href=\"https://www.girlboss.com/contributors/jessicalanyadoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girlboss\u003c/a> here in the United States and \u003ca href=\"https://www.chatelaine.com/author/jessica-lanyadoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chatelaine\u003c/a> in Canada. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before immersing myself in Lanyadoo’s book, I pulled up my birth chart on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ghost-of-a-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free generator\u003c/a> on her website\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. After finding out that I’m a quadruple Gemini, and three-times Sagittarius, I had questions—and with Lanyadoo’s help, I got clear answers. “The placement of the moon tells you about your emotions, the placement of Neptune tells you about your ideals, and where Mercury falls on your chart offers insight about your mind and your thoughts,” a passage in the book reads. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "pop_107634",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lanyadoo believes that aside influencing our interactions with others, the planets also rule our surroundings and what goes on in the world. When it comes to Pluto, the book explains that it is the planet that “governs our fight-or-flight mechanisms, destruction and healing, compulsive feelings, manic impulses, and the actions that come from them.” Considering the current state of our political climate, it is impossible to read this section and not think of the current administration in the White House. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I asked Lanyadoo what’s going on with Pluto at the moment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“On the 12th of January we went though this massive and very important transit called Saturn in conjunction to Pluto,” Lanyadoo explains. “There will be a few other transits with Pluto happening in 2020. And, then, in 2021, we are going to the Pluto return to the United States of America. This is a massive transit, and yes, we are going through major Plutonian themes.” In other words, we as a society are going to be confronted with our wrongdoings and the work ahead to fix them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The stars can also help us understand history, Lanyadoo says, and how it relates to the present. “The last time that planet Uranus was transiting through the sign Taurus, which is happening right now, was when we had Hitler,” she says. “And again, we are seeing a rise in authoritarianism.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "arts_13872290",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet \u003cem>Astrology for Real Relationships\u003c/em> is not all darkness and destruction, and in light of Valentine’s Day coming up, I ask Lanyadoo about what the planets have in store for us single folks and hopeless romantics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m a big believer in following the flow of your life. If what you are trying to do is to fill a void, not a very successful motive,” she explains. “But if you are actually open to getting to know someone new, and willing to do the work and having healthy boundaries, then yes.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Astrology can help us figure things out, but Lanyadoo emphasizes the need to take care of our inner self first before anything else. She offers some guidance as to what is in store for 2020: “Venus is going retrograde from May 13 to June 25, not terribly long. But, we also have it happening from September through November 13 with Mars going retrograde.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two planets impact dating, she explains, because they affect the way we relate to others and the love we are choosing. “This [retrograde] can be a really powerful time for making the time to do an internal adjustment we need in order to get the external outcome we desire.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with the customizable approach in her book, Lanyadoo reminds us, “Astrology is a tool.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How we use it is up to us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/arts/13873759/jessica-lanyadoo-astrology-real-relationships",
"authors": [
"byline_arts_13873759"
],
"categories": [
"arts_73"
],
"tags": [
"arts_9548",
"arts_1118"
],
"featImg": "arts_13873768",
"label": "arts"
},
"arts_13872290": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "arts_13872290",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "13872290",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1577995237000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "how-larry-arrington-integrated-astrology-and-dance-to-confront-cosmic-tumult",
"title": "How Larry Arrington Integrated Astrology and Dance to Confront Cosmic Tumult",
"publishDate": 1577995237,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "How Larry Arrington Integrated Astrology and Dance to Confront Cosmic Tumult | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "arts"
},
"content": "\u003cp>One recent afternoon, dancer and choreographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.astrologywithlarry.com/dance\">Larry Arrington\u003c/a> crawled beneath a green, furry sheet in San Francisco’s ODC Theater. It was a rehearsal for \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, her latest work, and flower petals and a large garment covered the stage while a boombox played arrhythmic electronic music. Performers Chelsea Reichert and Jose Abad were already under the fabric, and Sherwood Chen would momentarily lay atop the mounds, intimating their arched bodies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them to get closer to each other,” said Arrington, clad in a dark tank top and shorts, during a break. “As a sort of joke, I call it a solo.” The theme of hybridity or blending runs throughout \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> in strikingly mirrored duets. “Sharing bodies,” in Arrington’s parlance, also references the alignment of Saturn and Pluto in what astrologers such as herself call a conjunction. “Really I’m an astrologer who uses dance in my astrological practice,” she said. “Dance is the mouth I use to chew things.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> shows Arrington integrating her astrology with live performance more closely than ever. Her first piece created entirely in alignment with planetary cycles, Arrington started developing \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> in December 2017, when Saturn entered Capricorn. It runs Jan. 9–11, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.odc.dance/NoQuarter\">ODC Theater\u003c/a> in the Mission District, where she’s a resident artist, as Saturn begins to conjunct Pluto—a rare cosmic event that, Arrington and other astrologers believe, augurs global tumult. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Saturn-Pluto cycles are all about crises of power,” Arrington said, mentioning Richard Tarnas’ book \u003cem>Cosmos and Psyche\u003c/em>, which charts the major historical events of modernity along with planetary cycles. “It’s very out there, very woo-woo,” she said. “I actually don’t talk a lot about this publicly. But the idea is I do art in alignment with these cycles, as petitions to them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Arrington is a San Francisco dancer-choreographer and astrologer. 'No Quarter,' her latest work, runs January 9-11 at ODC Theater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Arrington is a San Francisco dancer-choreographer and astrologer. ‘No Quarter,’ her latest work, runs January 9-11 at ODC Theater. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> partly resembles a symposium. It begins with the performers still, surrounded by petals, while Arrington uses a chalkboard to digress, in a declarative-yet-elliptical style familiar from astrology, between ancient myth, modern geopolitics and the solar system. Attendees go on stage, intone phrases and learn to tell “daemon” from “demon.” Not that Arrington is too didactic: She stokes ambiguity and confusion, wondering what the planets portend for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last Saturn-Pluto conjunction was in 1982,” Arrington said. “And I was born in 1982.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington, 37, grew up in Louisiana and moved from New York to San Francisco more than a decade ago. At the time, she was leery of dancing professionally, but felt energized by the city’s climate of experimentation, drawing inspiration from collaborators Amara Tabor-Smith, Jesse Hewitt and Keith Hennessy. She landed residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and CounterPULSE, and was invited to the closely-watched American Realness Festival in New York in 2012. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 2010s, Arrington also created SQUART (Spontaneous Queer Art). For the performance series, often hosted at the Lab or SOMArts in San Francisco, with installments in Berlin and Portland, Oregon, artists convened in random groups to build performances around loose, winking prompts. “Celebrity judges” assessed the results, game show-style, in a satire of art-world workshops and competition that conveyed her misgivings about dance-as-vocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, her work pivoted towards its present forms and concerns. Rising cost-of-living had diminished her roster of collaborators; instead of large ensembles Arrington turned to duets and solos. Around the same time, a series of injuries left her temporarily unable to teach. “That made me panic,” she said. “All of the money I’d ever made was about being able to move.” So Arrington began charging money for the astrological insights she’d previously shared for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Abad, seen here rehearsing at ODC Theater, is a performer in Larry Arrington's 'No Quarter.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Abad, seen here rehearsing at ODC Theater, is a performer in Larry Arrington’s ‘No Quarter.’ \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arrington, who’s also a Rhythm & Motion dance teacher, offers group and individual astrology readings, plus regular horoscopes and related writings, and recently launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/join/larryarrington\">Patreon\u003c/a>. On \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/larrylarryarrington/?hl=en\">Instagram\u003c/a>, she posts video collages involving interpretive dance of planetary movements: Instead of the oracular neutrality of a written horoscope, Arrington’s head emerges from a fur blanket and spins like a top to represent a “trine” creating fertile conditions for personal growth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A typical comment reads, “This is the perfect representation of my inner experience.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diversifying income sources lessens the pressures of wooing arts funders. “I was at this talk and someone said, ‘Be careful how you write your grant, you might start to believe yourself,’” she recalled, explaining how artists self-limit by tailoring narrow theses to funders instead of capturing what arises unbidden from the creative process. The distance from institutions also helps protect her work’s accessibility; admission to \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, for instance, is sliding scale. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington explores ideas in an open-ended way, carrying questions from one piece to the next as if each project is a swatch of the same borderless latticework. \u003cem>Quarter\u003c/em>, a prelude to \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, created as a part of Hope Mohr Dance’s Bridge Project in 2016 (in response to Trisha Brown’s cube-based 1975 piece \u003cem>Locus\u003c/em>), found Arrington critically examining how neatly delineated space—think maps, crosses—undergirds monotheism, patriarchy and colonialism. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sherwood Chen is a performer in Larry Arrington's 'No Quarter.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherwood Chen is a performer in Larry Arrington’s ‘No Quarter.’ \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a global resurgence of far-right nationalism, Arrington sees those forces of division intensifying, and the planetary conjunction at the core of \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> threatens to pronounce them further. She also believes it’s a time of turning inward and facing shadows. “Buried things announce themselves, the past/dead speak,” reads her astrology workbook for 2020. “We are asked to take necessary and challenging looks at power, paternity, structure and the past.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, Arrington takes her own advice. At a work-in-progress preview in August, Arrington recited Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “You, Darkness,” and performed a series of duets between stories drawn from her distant patrilineage and Greco-Roman mythology—like Saturn eating his children and castrating his father. On a chalkboard she drew a gun and a wagon wheel, “problematic inventions,” she said, that figured in the deaths of her great-grandfathers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington describes No Quarter as tracking the shift “from the many to the one” in the past 2,000 years or so. It is a vast subject, and she seems to savor the risk of an audience left unmoored. In one of two chalkboard columns, Arrington wrote “YIKES,” “DEAD” and “HISTORY,” and drew a circle around them before adding arrows pointing to other gnomic words. “Yes?” Arrington said, nodding wide-eyed at the crowd. She wrote “transcendence,” adding the letters from right to left, drew two clocks at the top (linear and circular time), and at the bottom scrawled “#1DAD.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This make sense?” she said, prompting nervous laughter. Arrington entertained questions, and someone asked about two symbols that turned out to be glyphs for Saturn and Pluto. With enough mythological fluency, the chalkboard cohered. But Arrington also seemed content to let it sit like a poem, enigmatic to the point of provocation, and move along. “Should we keep dancing?” She continued, “Okay, I’m not going to give you a ton of context for this next one.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "‘No Quarter’ is the San Francisco artist’s first piece created entirely in alignment with planetary cycles. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1726764520,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 19,
"wordCount": 1332
},
"headData": {
"title": "How Larry Arrington Integrated Astrology and Dance to Confront Cosmic Tumult | KQED",
"description": "‘No Quarter’ is the San Francisco artist’s first piece created entirely in alignment with planetary cycles. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "How Larry Arrington Integrated Astrology and Dance to Confront Cosmic Tumult",
"datePublished": "2020-01-02T12:00:37-08:00",
"dateModified": "2024-09-19T09:48:40-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"sticky": false,
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"path": "/arts/13872290/how-larry-arrington-integrated-astrology-and-dance-to-confront-cosmic-tumult",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One recent afternoon, dancer and choreographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.astrologywithlarry.com/dance\">Larry Arrington\u003c/a> crawled beneath a green, furry sheet in San Francisco’s ODC Theater. It was a rehearsal for \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, her latest work, and flower petals and a large garment covered the stage while a boombox played arrhythmic electronic music. Performers Chelsea Reichert and Jose Abad were already under the fabric, and Sherwood Chen would momentarily lay atop the mounds, intimating their arched bodies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them to get closer to each other,” said Arrington, clad in a dark tank top and shorts, during a break. “As a sort of joke, I call it a solo.” The theme of hybridity or blending runs throughout \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> in strikingly mirrored duets. “Sharing bodies,” in Arrington’s parlance, also references the alignment of Saturn and Pluto in what astrologers such as herself call a conjunction. “Really I’m an astrologer who uses dance in my astrological practice,” she said. “Dance is the mouth I use to chew things.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> shows Arrington integrating her astrology with live performance more closely than ever. Her first piece created entirely in alignment with planetary cycles, Arrington started developing \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> in December 2017, when Saturn entered Capricorn. It runs Jan. 9–11, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.odc.dance/NoQuarter\">ODC Theater\u003c/a> in the Mission District, where she’s a resident artist, as Saturn begins to conjunct Pluto—a rare cosmic event that, Arrington and other astrologers believe, augurs global tumult. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Saturn-Pluto cycles are all about crises of power,” Arrington said, mentioning Richard Tarnas’ book \u003cem>Cosmos and Psyche\u003c/em>, which charts the major historical events of modernity along with planetary cycles. “It’s very out there, very woo-woo,” she said. “I actually don’t talk a lot about this publicly. But the idea is I do art in alignment with these cycles, as petitions to them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Arrington is a San Francisco dancer-choreographer and astrologer. 'No Quarter,' her latest work, runs January 9-11 at ODC Theater.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/arrington-seated.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Arrington is a San Francisco dancer-choreographer and astrologer. ‘No Quarter,’ her latest work, runs January 9-11 at ODC Theater. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> partly resembles a symposium. It begins with the performers still, surrounded by petals, while Arrington uses a chalkboard to digress, in a declarative-yet-elliptical style familiar from astrology, between ancient myth, modern geopolitics and the solar system. Attendees go on stage, intone phrases and learn to tell “daemon” from “demon.” Not that Arrington is too didactic: She stokes ambiguity and confusion, wondering what the planets portend for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last Saturn-Pluto conjunction was in 1982,” Arrington said. “And I was born in 1982.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington, 37, grew up in Louisiana and moved from New York to San Francisco more than a decade ago. At the time, she was leery of dancing professionally, but felt energized by the city’s climate of experimentation, drawing inspiration from collaborators Amara Tabor-Smith, Jesse Hewitt and Keith Hennessy. She landed residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and CounterPULSE, and was invited to the closely-watched American Realness Festival in New York in 2012. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 2010s, Arrington also created SQUART (Spontaneous Queer Art). For the performance series, often hosted at the Lab or SOMArts in San Francisco, with installments in Berlin and Portland, Oregon, artists convened in random groups to build performances around loose, winking prompts. “Celebrity judges” assessed the results, game show-style, in a satire of art-world workshops and competition that conveyed her misgivings about dance-as-vocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, her work pivoted towards its present forms and concerns. Rising cost-of-living had diminished her roster of collaborators; instead of large ensembles Arrington turned to duets and solos. Around the same time, a series of injuries left her temporarily unable to teach. “That made me panic,” she said. “All of the money I’d ever made was about being able to move.” So Arrington began charging money for the astrological insights she’d previously shared for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Abad, seen here rehearsing at ODC Theater, is a performer in Larry Arrington's 'No Quarter.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872295\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Jose-Abad-good.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Abad, seen here rehearsing at ODC Theater, is a performer in Larry Arrington’s ‘No Quarter.’ \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arrington, who’s also a Rhythm & Motion dance teacher, offers group and individual astrology readings, plus regular horoscopes and related writings, and recently launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/join/larryarrington\">Patreon\u003c/a>. On \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/larrylarryarrington/?hl=en\">Instagram\u003c/a>, she posts video collages involving interpretive dance of planetary movements: Instead of the oracular neutrality of a written horoscope, Arrington’s head emerges from a fur blanket and spins like a top to represent a “trine” creating fertile conditions for personal growth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A typical comment reads, “This is the perfect representation of my inner experience.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diversifying income sources lessens the pressures of wooing arts funders. “I was at this talk and someone said, ‘Be careful how you write your grant, you might start to believe yourself,’” she recalled, explaining how artists self-limit by tailoring narrow theses to funders instead of capturing what arises unbidden from the creative process. The distance from institutions also helps protect her work’s accessibility; admission to \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, for instance, is sliding scale. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington explores ideas in an open-ended way, carrying questions from one piece to the next as if each project is a swatch of the same borderless latticework. \u003cem>Quarter\u003c/em>, a prelude to \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, created as a part of Hope Mohr Dance’s Bridge Project in 2016 (in response to Trisha Brown’s cube-based 1975 piece \u003cem>Locus\u003c/em>), found Arrington critically examining how neatly delineated space—think maps, crosses—undergirds monotheism, patriarchy and colonialism. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sherwood Chen is a performer in Larry Arrington's 'No Quarter.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13872296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/sherwood.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherwood Chen is a performer in Larry Arrington’s ‘No Quarter.’ \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a global resurgence of far-right nationalism, Arrington sees those forces of division intensifying, and the planetary conjunction at the core of \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em> threatens to pronounce them further. She also believes it’s a time of turning inward and facing shadows. “Buried things announce themselves, the past/dead speak,” reads her astrology workbook for 2020. “We are asked to take necessary and challenging looks at power, paternity, structure and the past.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>No Quarter\u003c/em>, Arrington takes her own advice. At a work-in-progress preview in August, Arrington recited Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “You, Darkness,” and performed a series of duets between stories drawn from her distant patrilineage and Greco-Roman mythology—like Saturn eating his children and castrating his father. On a chalkboard she drew a gun and a wagon wheel, “problematic inventions,” she said, that figured in the deaths of her great-grandfathers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington describes No Quarter as tracking the shift “from the many to the one” in the past 2,000 years or so. It is a vast subject, and she seems to savor the risk of an audience left unmoored. In one of two chalkboard columns, Arrington wrote “YIKES,” “DEAD” and “HISTORY,” and drew a circle around them before adding arrows pointing to other gnomic words. “Yes?” Arrington said, nodding wide-eyed at the crowd. She wrote “transcendence,” adding the letters from right to left, drew two clocks at the top (linear and circular time), and at the bottom scrawled “#1DAD.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This make sense?” she said, prompting nervous laughter. Arrington entertained questions, and someone asked about two symbols that turned out to be glyphs for Saturn and Pluto. With enough mythological fluency, the chalkboard cohered. But Arrington also seemed content to let it sit like a poem, enigmatic to the point of provocation, and move along. “Should we keep dancing?” She continued, “Okay, I’m not going to give you a ton of context for this next one.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/arts/13872290/how-larry-arrington-integrated-astrology-and-dance-to-confront-cosmic-tumult",
"authors": [
"11091"
],
"categories": [
"arts_1",
"arts_966"
],
"tags": [
"arts_3713",
"arts_9548",
"arts_879",
"arts_1118",
"arts_596",
"arts_1146",
"arts_1072"
],
"featImg": "arts_13872294",
"label": "arts"
}
},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "\"KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS9iYXktY3VyaW91cy1wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1MDAyODE4NTgz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "\"KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9zZXJpZXMvamVycnlicm93bi9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5Nzk2MzI2MTEx",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc29sZG91dA"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM4MjU5Nzg2MzI3",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM0NTcwODQ2MjY2",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/arts?tag=astrology": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 0,
"postsToRender": 9
},
"tag": null,
"vitalsOnly": true,
"totalRequested": 6,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 6,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"arts_13981680",
"arts_13912270",
"arts_13891898",
"arts_13878154",
"arts_13873759",
"arts_13872290"
]
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"subscriptionsReducer": {},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts_9548": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_9548",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "9548",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "astrology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "astrology Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null,
"imageData": {
"ogImageSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"width": 1200,
"height": 630
},
"twImageSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
},
"twitterCard": "summary_large_image"
}
},
"ttid": 9560,
"slug": "astrology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/astrology"
},
"arts_1": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_1",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "1",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Arts",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Arts Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1,
"slug": "arts",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/category/arts"
},
"arts_10278": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_10278",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "10278",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured-arts",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured-arts Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10290,
"slug": "featured-arts",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/featured-arts"
},
"arts_3837": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_3837",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "3837",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "podcasts",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "podcasts Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3849,
"slug": "podcasts",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/podcasts"
},
"arts_21866": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_21866",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "21866",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Arts and Culture",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Arts and Culture Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21878,
"slug": "arts-and-culture",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/interest/arts-and-culture"
},
"arts_21879": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_21879",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "21879",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Entertainment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Entertainment Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21891,
"slug": "entertainment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/interest/entertainment"
},
"arts_21860": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_21860",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "21860",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Oakland",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Oakland Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21872,
"slug": "oakland",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/interest/oakland"
},
"arts_140": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_140",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "140",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "The Do List",
"slug": "the-do-list",
"taxonomy": "program",
"description": null,
"featImg": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/The-Do-LIst-logo-2014-horizontal-015.png",
"headData": {
"title": "The Do List Archives | KQED Arts",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 141,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/program/the-do-list"
},
"arts_966": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_966",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "966",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Dance",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Dance Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 984,
"slug": "dance",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/category/dance"
},
"arts_1831": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_1831",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "1831",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "brontez purnell",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "brontez purnell Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1843,
"slug": "brontez-purnell",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/brontez-purnell"
},
"arts_879": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_879",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "879",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "dance",
"description": "Covering dance events in the Bay Area and more.",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Covering dance events in the Bay Area and more.",
"title": "dance Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 897,
"slug": "dance",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/dance"
},
"arts_1406": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_1406",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "1406",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "ODC",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "ODC Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1418,
"slug": "odc",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/odc"
},
"arts_585": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_585",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "585",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "thedolist",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "thedolist Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 590,
"slug": "thedolist",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/thedolist"
},
"arts_75": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_75",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "75",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Pop Culture",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Pop Culture Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 76,
"slug": "popculture",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/category/popculture"
},
"arts_10127": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_10127",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "10127",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "covid-19",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "covid-19 Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10139,
"slug": "covid-19",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/covid-19"
},
"arts_10342": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_10342",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "10342",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "editorspick",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "editorspick Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10354,
"slug": "editorspick",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/editorspick"
},
"arts_10416": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_10416",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "10416",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "shelter in place",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "shelter in place Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10428,
"slug": "shelter-in-place",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/shelter-in-place"
},
"arts_2303": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_2303",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "2303",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Commentary",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Commentary Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2315,
"slug": "commentary",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/category/commentary"
},
"arts_7862": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_7862",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "7862",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "History",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "History Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 7874,
"slug": "history",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/category/history"
},
"arts_2767": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_2767",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "2767",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "commentary",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "commentary Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2779,
"slug": "commentary",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/commentary"
},
"arts_10126": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_10126",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "10126",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "coronavirus",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "coronavirus Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10138,
"slug": "coronavirus",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/coronavirus"
},
"arts_10585": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_10585",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "10585",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "psychics",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "psychics Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10597,
"slug": "psychics",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/psychics"
},
"arts_73": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_73",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "73",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Books",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Books Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 74,
"slug": "literature",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/category/literature"
},
"arts_1118": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_1118",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "1118",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1135,
"slug": "featured",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/featured"
},
"arts_3713": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_3713",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "3713",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Amara Tabor Smith",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Amara Tabor Smith Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3725,
"slug": "amara-tabor-smith",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/amara-tabor-smith"
},
"arts_596": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_596",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "596",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "ntv",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "ntv Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 602,
"slug": "ntv",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/ntv"
},
"arts_1146": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_1146",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "1146",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 701,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/san-francisco"
},
"arts_1072": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts_1072",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "arts",
"id": "1072",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "theater",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "theater Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1089,
"slug": "theater",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/arts/tag/theater"
}
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"localStorageReducer": {},
"browserHistoryReducer": [],
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {},
"restaurantData": []
},
"location": {
"pathname": "/arts/tag/astrology",
"previousPathname": "/"
}
}
